the vision of being by doing

That is the right order.
You first have the vision, then you become the person in the vision, and then you start doing what the person in the vision is doing.

Many methods work the other way around and start with the doing, assuming the sequence will be created, in reverse.

Never worked for me.

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The trickiest thing is the fact that the people who have accomplished something are hardly ever able to identify what got them there. Yet, in their excitement about their accomplishment and their eagerness to share, they will often create a system that reflects the journey there, and the reality of where they are now.

Here is a new lineage.
An X step process.
A new school of thought.
Here is a course where I will teach you all about it.

And it is also related to the idea of changing your habits, which then change your lifestyle because you have to in order to fit that new stuff in;
Which then in turn changes your identity.

You have “become” a runner, because you run three times a week.
You now identify as an artist, because you dedicate one day a week to painting.
A writer because you blog daily.

Sounds solid, but in my case?
It has never, worked like that.

I have been writing consistently for fifteen years, as I also write under another name since 2006.
But I do not identify as a writer.
I’ve learned to live with it, is how I would call it.
Like Eddie in Venom learns to live with the extraterrestrial inside of him. He shares his body and personality, and that’s just the way it is.

But Eddie did not practice being an extraterrestrial every day, and then one day the transformation was complete and he was now Venom.
Eddie didn’t have a say in this.

And it’s the same with us; We don’t really have a choice in who we become.

I’m just gonna say it out loud;
Not buying the whole identity by doing (usually some habit) thing! 

And even if research shows otherwise?
I will give you otherwise!

Otherwise is;
I am 52 years old, and in my personal life, and in the people I have known, I have never seen doing amounting to anything but mediocre.
To mundane.
To okay-ish.

But I have not seen anybody RISE to anything!

Which totally makes sense, because you do not BECOME VENOM LEVEL ANYTHING, from doing!

You become it from being possessed.

So how are we possessed? When do we know that this extra-terrestial being has nested itself into us? Either, we get a vision. Or we suddenly start doing something, that we have never been doing before.

Slash, the guitarist from Guns N’ Roses, used to be a kid-mountainbiker. He spent every waking minute learning new tricks on his bike, and riding the (if I recall) Hollywood Hills.
Until the day he started playing guitar, and cold turkey broke with his bike riding.
And the rest is history.

I don’t know if Slash started with a vision of wanting to become a guitar playing, or if he had a taste of it, and liked it.
But it was a full transformation.
The guitar Venom was inside of him.

In the same way I started writing in 2006. I just did. 
Before I realized I was going through an irreversible process, Writing Venom had taken over.

But I have also had the milder version, the one where you feel more control, and that is in a way more gratifying because you get more time to let the idea float for a bit. And ripen.
You get time to make the idea your own, and the satisfaction of consciously taking the steps to move towards your vision.

And this was when Madonna had picked up doing yoga and when her album Ray of Light came out in 1998, she spoke about that in many interviews.
And her body looked totally different than from her Evita time.
She had become a mother in between, but her body had become that of an athlete.

And the idea and the vision of me starting yoga myself, was born.

And once I was on the path, I started doing yoga even before my first yoga class. I used the stretches after my running to explore my body in a new way.
And after I had found a class, I would make notes from the exercises we had done, and created my own yoga ringbinder.

The vision had come first. Then I had accepted it to the degree of seeing myself as a practitioner. And after that I started doing.

And I wasn’t really aware about how strict this all had been. And how adamant I am that this is the only correct and wholesome way.
Until this year, I spent hundreds of euros on studying menopause including buying three online courses.

And ending up hating all of them.
One immediately, where I got my money back.
This was one solely on pelvic floor issues, and I hated it with a vengeance. I thought it was so ugly, so compartmentalized. And I knew I was an ungrateful bitch, but at that moment I  really thought that even if I had been incontinent and unable to have sex, I would have preferred that over having to engage in this approach that did nothing but suck the last juices out of you.

Boring topic, I really don’t know why I brought it up. I should have stayed with Slash’s guitar and Madonna’s yoga!
But suffice to say that the other two courses were ultimately also a waste of my money and I have three books here in the shelves.
Confident, neither one will ever get read.

Do you know why?

Because the result will ALWAYS be something acquired, learned, mediocre, boring, compartmental, and loveless.

The courses and the books on menopause ARE, those systems these people came up with, at the end of their journey.
The ones I warned against, in the first paragraph.

These doctors and therapists, are trying to put into words something that consumed them. Something that LIVED them.

Menopause was their guitar, it was their yoga, it was their VENOM!
They were taken over by that field of interest, and now they are communicating facts and exercises, and things we can do, but that is not how this works!

That is, in my opinion, not how anything works.

So stop wasting your time, with anything that is not your VENOM. Anything that does not take over your life as an activity that you can’t put down, or as some idea, some thought, that you just can’t let go of.

Something that deeply fascinates you, and that you know you will never grow tired of.

And embrace, your VENOM.

~Suzanne
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